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New Releases: Week of July 9, 2019 Part I
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Happy new release Tuesday!! It's a new week and that means new books! Check out Part I below and watch for Part II later today!
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Links: Goodreads | Amazon* | Book Depository*
Synopsis: It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her.
It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.
But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.
Spin the Dawn (The Blood of Stars #1) by Elizabeth Lim
Synopsis: Maia Tamarin dreams of becoming the greatest tailor in the land, but as a girl, the best she can hope for is to marry well. When a royal messenger summons her ailing father, once a tailor of renown, to court, Maia poses as a boy and takes his place. She knows her life is forfeit if her secret is discovered, but she'll take that risk to achieve her dream and save her family from ruin. There's just one catch: Maia is one of twelve tailors vying for the job.
Backstabbing and lies run rampant as the tailors compete in challenges to prove their artistry and skill. Maia's task is further complicated when she draws the attention of the court magician, Edan, whose piercing eyes seem to see straight through her disguise.
And nothing could have prepared her for the final challenge: to sew three magic gowns for the emperor's reluctant bride-to-be, from the laughter of the sun, the tears of the moon, and the blood of stars. With this impossible task before her, she embarks on a journey to the far reaches of the kingdom, seeking the sun, the moon, and the stars, and finding more than she ever could have imagined.
Under Currents by Nora Roberts
Synopsis: For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they've come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under?
Zane Bigelow grew up in a beautiful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. Strangers―and even Zane's own aunt across the lake―see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Only Zane and his sister know the truth, until one brutal night finally reveals cracks in the facade, and Zane escapes for college without a thought of looking back…
Years later, Zane returns to his hometown determined to reconnect with the place and people that mean so much to him, despite the painful memories. As he resumes life in the colorful town, he meets a gifted landscape artist named Darby, who is on the run from ghosts of her own.
Together they will have to teach each other what it means to face the past, and stand up for the ones they love.
The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson
Synopsis: In the tropical kingdom of Rhodaire, magical, elemental Crows are part of every aspect of life…until the Illucian empire invades, destroying everything.
That terrible night has thrown Princess Anthia into a deep depression. Her sister Caliza is busy running the kingdom after their mother's death, but all Thia can do is think of all she has lost.
But when Caliza is forced to agree to a marriage between Thia and the crown prince of Illucia, Thia is finally spurred into action. And after stumbling upon a hidden Crow egg in the rubble of a rookery, she and her sister devise a dangerous plan to hatch the egg in secret and get back what was taken from them.
Age of Legend (The Legends of the First Empire #4) by Michael J. Sullivan
Synopsis: Each culture has its own myths and legends, but only one is shared, and it is feared by all.
With Age of Myth, Age of Swords, and Age of War, fantasy master Michael J. Sullivan riveted readers with a tale of unlikely heroes locked in a desperate battle to save mankind. After years of warfare, humanity has gained the upper hand and has pushed the Fhrey to the edge of their homeland, but no farther. Now comes the pivotal moment. Persephone's plan to use the stalemate to seek peace is destroyed by an unexpected betrayal that threatens to hand victory to the Fhrey and leaves a dear friend in peril. Her only hope lies in the legend of a witch, a forgotten song, and a simple garden door.
The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams
Synopsis: The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora "Lulu" Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires?
Or so Lulu imagines. But as she infiltrates the Duke and Duchess's social circle, and the powerful cabal that controls the islands' political and financial affairs, she uncovers evidence that beneath the glister of Wallis and Edward's marriage lies an ugly—and even treasonous—reality. In fact, Windsor-era Nassau seethes with spies, financial swindles, and racial tension, and in the middle of it all stands Benedict Thorpe: a scientist of tremendous charm and murky national loyalties. Inevitably, the willful and wounded Lulu falls in love.
Then Nassau's wealthiest man is murdered in one of the most notorious cases of the century, and the resulting coverup reeks of royal privilege. Benedict Thorpe disappears without a trace, and Lulu embarks on a journey to London and beyond to unpick Thorpe's complicated family history: a fateful love affair, a wartime tragedy, and a mother from whom all joy is stolen.
The stories of two unforgettable women thread together in this extraordinary epic of espionage, sacrifice, human love, and human courage, set against a shocking true crime . . . and the rise and fall of a legendary royal couple.
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
Synopsis: Meet Nina Hill: A young woman supremely confident in her own…shell.
The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book.
When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're all–or mostly all–excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It's a disaster! And as if that wasn't enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. Doesn't he realize what a terrible idea that is?
Nina considers her options.
1. Completely change her name and appearance. (Too drastic, plus she likes her hair.)
2. Flee to a deserted island. (Hard pass, see: coffee).
3. Hide in a corner of her apartment and rock back and forth. (Already doing it.)
It's time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn't convinced real life could ever live up to fiction. It's going to take a brand-new family, a persistent suitor, and the combined effects of ice cream and trivia to make her turn her own fresh page.
Maybe This Time by Kasie West
Synopsis: One year. Nine events. Nine chances to . . . fall in love?
Weddings. Funerals. Barbecues. New Year's Eve parties. Name the occasion, and Sophie Evans will be there. Well, she has to be there. Sophie works for the local florist, so she can be found at every big event in her small hometown, arranging bouquets and managing family dramas.
Enter Andrew Hart. The son of the fancy new chef in town, Andrew is suddenly required to attend all the same events as Sophie. Entitled, arrogant, preppy Andrew. Sophie just wants to get her job done and finish up her sketches so she can apply to design school. But every time she turns around, there is Andrew, getting in her way and making her life more complicated. Until one day she wonders if maybe complicated isn't so bad after all . . .
Told over the course of one year and following Sophie from event to event, this delightful novel from master of romantic comedy Kasie West shows how love can blossom in unexpected places.
The Rumor by Lesley Kara (paperback release)
Synopsis: When a single mother hears a rumor outside her son's school, she never intends to pass it on. But one casual comment leads to another. . . . And now there's no going back.
Rumor has it that a notorious killer, a woman who has been released from prison years after her brutal crime, is living under a new identity in Joanna's seaside town. So who is the supposedly reformed murderer now living in their neighborhood? Suspicion falls on everyone.
As Joanna becomes obsessed with the case, her curiosity will expose her son and his father to a heartless psychopath who has killed—and may kill again. And she will learn how dangerous one rumor can become . . . and just how far she must go to protect those she loves from harm. She is going to regret the day she ever said a word. . . .
The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess
Synopsis: A propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980's New York and the timeless beaches of Cape Cod.
In the summer of 1987, 25-year-old Eve Rosen is an aspiring writer languishing in a low-level assistant job, unable to shake the shadow of growing up with her brilliant brother. With her professional ambitions floundering, Eve jumps at the chance to attend an early summer gathering at the Cape Cod home of famed New Yorker writer Henry Grey and his poet wife, Tillie. Dazzled by the guests and her burgeoning crush on the hosts' artistic son, Eve lands a new job as Henry Grey's research assistant and an invitation to Henry and Tillie's exclusive and famed "Book Party"— where attendees dress as literary characters. But by the night of the party, Eve discovers uncomfortable truths about her summer entanglements and understands that the literary world she so desperately wanted to be a part of is not at all what it seems.
A page-turning, coming-of-age story, written with a lyrical sense of place and a profound appreciation for the sustaining power of books, The Last Book Party shows what happens when youth and experience collide and what it takes to find your own voice.
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Synopsis: Desire as we've never seen it before: a riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting.
It thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts, destroys our lives, and it's all we live for. Yet we almost never speak of it. And as a buried force in our lives, desire remains largely unexplored—until now. Over the past eight years, journalist Lisa Taddeo has driven across the country six times to embed herself with ordinary women from different regions and backgrounds. The result, Three Women, is the deepest nonfiction portrait of desire ever written and one of the most anticipated books of the year.
We begin in suburban Indiana with Lina, a homemaker and mother of two whose marriage, after a decade, has lost its passion. She passes her days cooking and cleaning for a man who refuses to kiss her on the mouth, protesting that "the sensation offends" him. To Lina's horror, even her marriage counselor says her husband's position is valid. Starved for affection, Lina battles daily panic attacks. When she reconnects with an old flame through social media, she embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming.
In North Dakota we meet Maggie, a seventeen-year-old high school student who finds a confidant in her handsome, married English teacher. By Maggie's account, supportive nightly texts and phone calls evolve into a clandestine physical relationship, with plans to skip school on her eighteenth birthday and make love all day; instead, he breaks up with her on the morning he turns thirty. A few years later, Maggie has no degree, no career, and no dreams to live for. When she learns that this man has been named North Dakota's Teacher of the Year, she steps forward with her story—and is met with disbelief by former schoolmates and the jury that hears her case. The trial will turn their quiet community upside down.
Finally, in an exclusive enclave of the Northeast, we meet Sloane—a gorgeous, successful, and refined restaurant owner—who is happily married to a man who likes to watch her have sex with other men and women. He picks out partners for her alone or for a threesome, and she ensures that everyone's needs are satisfied. For years, Sloane has been asking herself where her husband's desire ends and hers begins. One day, they invite a new man into their bed—but he brings a secret with him that will finally force Sloane to confront the uneven power dynamics that fuel their lifestyle.
Based on years of immersive reporting, and told with astonishing frankness and immediacy, Three Women is a groundbreaking portrait of erotic longing in today's America, exposing the fragility, complexity, and inequality of female desire with unprecedented depth and emotional power. It is both a feat of journalism and a triumph of storytelling, brimming with nuance and empathy, that introduces us to three unforgettable women—and one remarkable writer—whose experiences remind us that we are not alone.
One Little Secret by Cate Holahan
Synopsis: Everyone has a secret. For some, it's worth dying to protect. For others, it's worth killing.
The glass beach house was supposed to be the getaway that Susan needed. Eager to help her transplanted family set down roots in their new town – and desperate for some kid-free conversation – she invites her new neighbors to join in on a week-long sublet with her and her workaholic husband.
Over the course of the first evening, liquor loosens inhibitions and lips. The three couples begin picking up on the others' marital tensions and work frustrations, as well as revealing their own. But someone says too much. And the next morning one of the women is discovered dead on the private beach.
Town detective Gabby Watkins must figure out who permanently silenced the deceased. As she investigates, she learns that everyone in the glass house was hiding something that could tie them to the murder, and that the biggest secrets of all are often in plain sight for anyone willing to look.
A taut, locked room mystery with an unforgettable cast of characters, One Little Secret promises to keep readers eyes glued to the pages and debating the blinders that we all put on in the service of politeness.
Past Perfect Life by Elizabeth Eulberg
Synopsis: Small-town Wisconsin high school senior Allison Smith loves her life the way it is-spending quality time with her widowed father and her tight-knit circle of friends, including best friend Marian and maybe-more-than-friends Neil. Sure she is stressed out about college applications . . . who wouldn't be? In a few short months, everything's going to change, big time.
The Chain by Adrian McKinty
Synopsis: You just dropped off your child at the bus stop. A panicked stranger calls your phone. Your child has been kidnapped, and the stranger explains that their child has also been kidnapped, by a completely different stranger. The only way to get your child back is to kidnap another child within 24 hours. Your child will be released only when the next victim's parents kidnap yet another child, and most importantly, the stranger explains, if you don't kidnap a child, or if the next parents don't kidnap a child, your child will be murdered. You are now part of The Chain.
Bethlehem by Karen Kelly
Synopsis: With the atmospheric storytelling of Kate Morton and Lisa Wingate, Karen Kelly weaves a shattering debut about two intertwined families and the secrets that they buried during the gilded, glory days of Bethlehem, PA.
A young woman arrives at the grand ancestral home of her husband's family, hoping to fortify her cracking marriage. But what she finds is not what she expected: tragedy haunts the hallways, whispering of heartache and a past she never knew existed.
Inspired by the true titans of the steel-boom era, Bethlehem is a story of temptation and regret, a story of secrets and the cost of keeping them, a story of forgiveness. It is the story of two complex women—thrown together in the name of family—who, in coming to understand each other, come finally to understand themselves.
Dragonfly by Leila Meacham
Synopsis: At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds–a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer — all answer the call of duty, but each for a secret reason of his or her own. They bond immediately, in a group code-named Dragonfly.
Soon after their training, they are dropped behind enemy lines and take up their false identities, isolated from one another except for a secret drop-box, but in close contact with the powerful Nazi elite who have Paris under siege.
Thus begins a dramatic and riveting cat-and-mouse game, as the young Americans seek to stay under the radar until a fatal misstep leads to the capture and the firing-squad execution of one of their team. But…is everything as it seems, or is this one more elaborate act of spycraft?
The Need by Helen Phillips
Synopsis: When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it's the sleep deprivation. She's been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It's what mothers do, she knows.
But then the footsteps come again, and she catches a glimpse of movement.
Suddenly Molly finds herself face-to-face with an intruder who knows far too much about her and her family. As she attempts to protect those she loves most, Molly must also acknowledge her own frailty. Molly slips down an existential rabbit hole where she must confront the dualities of motherhood: the ecstasy and the dread; the languor and the ferocity; the banality and the transcendence as the book hurtles toward a mind-bending conclusion.
In The Need, Helen Phillips has created a subversive, speculative thriller that comes to life through blazing, arresting prose and gorgeous, haunting imagery. Anointed as one of the most exciting fiction writers working today, The Need is a glorious celebration of the bizarre and beautiful nature of our everyday lives.
The Reunion by Guillaume Musso
Synopsis: A prestigious campus frozen in the snow
Three friends linked by a tragic secret
One girl taken by the night
The Côte d'Azur – Winter 1992
One freezing night, as her campus is paralyzed by a snowstorm, 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell, the most beautiful and glamorous girl in her prep school, runs away with her philosophy teacher, with whom she has been conducting a secret affair. For Vinca, "love is everything or nothing."
She will never be seen again.
The Côte d'Azur – Spring 2017
Once inseparable, Manon, Thomas and Maxime — Vinca's best friends — have not spoken since graduation. They meet again at their reunion. Twenty-five years earlier, under terrible circumstances, the three of them committed a murder and buried the bodyin the gymnasium wall, the same wall that is about to be demolished to make way for an ultramodern new building.
What really happened that long-ago winter night? Now nothing stands in the way of the truth coming out.
From France's #1 bestselling author, Guillaume Musso, Night and the Maiden is a taut and suspenseful thriller that will keep readers riveted until its haunting final page.
Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe
Synopsis: A dazzling novel following the lives of three groundbreaking women–Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl–cinema legends who lit up the twentieth century
At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich, who would wend her way into Hollywood as one of its lasting icons; Anna May Wong, the world's first Chinese American star, playing for bit parts while dreaming of breaking away from her father's modest laundry; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director would first make her famous–then, infamous.
From this curious point of intersection, Delayed Rays of a Star lets loose the trajectories of these women's lives. From Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from a seaside resort in East Germany to a luxury apartment on the Champs-Élysées, the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, muse, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance. And in the orbit of each star live secondary players–a Chinese immigrant housemaid, a German soldier on leave from North Africa, a pompous Hollywood director–whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left in her own time, as well as in ours.
Amanda Lee Koe's playful, wry prose guides the reader dexterously around murky questions of ego, persona, complicity, desire, and difference. Intimate and raw, Delayed Rays of a Star is a visceral depiction of womanhood–its particular hungers, its calculations, and its eventual betrayals–and announces a bold new literary voice.
Synopsis: A lethal virus is awoken on an abandoned spaceship in this incredibly fast-paced, claustrophobic thriller.
They thought the ship would be their salvation.
Zahra knew every detail of the plan. House of Wisdom, a massive exploration vessel, had been abandoned by the government of Earth a decade earlier, when a deadly virus broke out and killed everyone on board in a matter of hours. But now it could belong to her people if they were bold enough to take it. All they needed to do was kidnap Jaswinder Bhattacharya—the sole survivor of the tragedy, and the last person whose genetic signature would allow entry to the spaceship.
But what Zahra and her crew could not know was what waited for them on the ship—a terrifying secret buried by the government. A threat to all of humanity that lay sleeping alongside the orbiting dead.
And then they woke it up.
Heartstopper: Volume 2 by Alice Oseman
Synopsis: Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the second volume of HEARTSTOPPER, for fans of The Art of Being Normal, Holly Bourne and Love, Simon.
Nick and Charlie are best friends. Nick knows Charlie's gay, and Charlie is sure that Nick isn't.
But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family … and himself.
Heartstopper is about friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.
This is the second volume of Heartstopper, with more to come.
The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi Eisele
Synopsis: If the grid went down, how would you find someone on the other side of the country? How would you find hope?
After a global economic collapse and failure of the electrical grid, amid escalating chaos, Carson, a high school teacher of history who sees history bearing out its lessons all around him, heads west on foot toward Beatrix, a woman he met and fell hard for during a chance visit to his school. Working his way along a cross-country railroad line, he encounters lost souls, clever opportunists, and those who believe they'll be delivered from hardship if they can find their way to the evangelical preacher Jonathan Blue, who is broadcasting on all the airwaves countrywide. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, Beatrix and her neighbors turn to one another for food, water, and solace, and begin to construct the kind of cooperative community that suggests the end could, in fact, be a promising beginning.
But between Beatrix and Carson lie 3,000 miles. With no internet or phone or postal service, can they find their way back to each other, and what will be left of their world when they do? The answers may lie with fifteen-year-old Rosie Santos, who travels reluctantly with her grandmother to Jonathan Blue, finding her voice and making choices that could ultimately decide the fate of the cross-country lovers.
The Lightest Object in the Universe is a story about reliance and adaptation, a testament to the power of community and a chronicle of moving on after catastrophic loss, illustrating that even in the worst of times, our best traits, borne of necessity, can begin to emerge.
Season of the Witch (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #1) by Sarah Rees Brenan
Synopsis: It's the summer before her sixteenth birthday, and Sabrina Spellman knows her world is about to change. She's always studied magic and spells with her aunts, Hilda and Zelda. But she's also lived a normal mortal life – attending Baxter High, hanging out with her friends Susie and Roz, and going to the movies with her boyfriend, Harvey Kinkle.
Now time is running out on her every day, normal world, and leaving behind Roz and Susie and Harvey is a lot harder than she thought it would be. Especially because Sabrina isn't sure how Harvey feels about her. Her cousin Ambrose suggests performing a spell to discover Harvey's true feelings. But when a mysterious wood spirit interferes, the spell backfires in a big way.
Sabrina has always been attracted to the power of being a witch. But now she can't help wondering if that power is leading her down the wrong path. Will she choose to forsake the path of light and follow the path of night?
The Traitor's Kingdom (The Traitor's Circle #3) by Erin Beaty
Synopsis: Unlikely alliances are forged and trust is shattered in the stunning conclusion to The Traitor's Trilogy.
A new queen under threat.
An ambassador with a desperate scheme.
Two kingdoms with everything to lose.
Once a spy and counselor to the throne, Sage Fowler has secured victory for her kingdom at a terrible cost. Now an ambassador representing Demora, Sage is about to face her greatest challenge to avoid a war with a rival kingdom.
After an assassination attempt destroys the chance for peace, Sage and her fiancé Major Alex Quinn risk a dangerous plot to reveal the culprit. But the stakes are higher than ever, and in the game of traitors, betrayal is the only certainty.
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A bullion version sold directly to the United States Mint's authorized purchasers was released on September 25, 2017 and a proof version priced at $1,387.50 was released on September 6, 2018. Both offerings were met with a strong response; the 2017 bullion version sold out the day of release and within five minutes, sales of the 2018 proof version were suspended pending verification of the existing 14,782 of 15,000 maximum orders. Secondary market sales for the proof version were also strong on September 6th with many listings selling at a $600 premium over the Mint's asking price.
The mintage of the 2017 Bullion and 2018-W Proof finishes were limited to a maximum of 15,000 pieces.
^ "American Eagle Palladium Bullion Coin Act of 2010" (PDF). Library of Congress. December 14, 2010. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
^ a b "American Palladium Eagle Bullion Coin Debuts on Sept. 25, 2017". CoinNews.net. September 18, 2017. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
^ "Sales of American Eagle palladium coin took five minutes to end". Coin World. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
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Every month, there is a sale at T&L Muumuu Factory that is advertised in the Star Advertiser. I drove to the factory last Sunday and walked out with three new muumuus, which were discounted by 25%. They are all loose fitting and very comfortable to wear.
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Aloha Gigi I really love them all, the red one popped out to me but I also enjoy the other ones, aloha in paradise and peace, love and joy to you and your hubs….
I have a friend who visited Hawaii recently and was unable to find a "real" muumuu. I cannot imagine why not.
Very colorful choices, Gigi, and we can see that you had a good shopping trip. I was wondering about the cost of these muumuus and also the material . They look like cotton in the photos.
The muumuus are made in Hawaii and the fabric is 35% cotton 65% polyester. Regular price is $70 minus 25% = $52.50 per muumuu. No ironing needed. Just machine wash and dry.
Nice. They must be cool and comfy — perfect for life in Hawaii. Colors and the variety of patterns seem to make them quite versatile.
They are all pretty and look so comfortable.
Thank you Gigi for the answers to my earlier questions. Easy care clothing is my favorite type to wear, especially the no ironing!
I'm reading the paper right now and see that T&L Muumuu Factory is having a "Store Closing Sale". From today June 6th to June 16.


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HomeCompanies and ProductsREITsUnlicensed Mortician Sentenced to 3-5 Years for Allegedly Storing Bodies, Remains in MA Self-Storage Units
Unlicensed Mortician Sentenced to 3-5 Years for Allegedly Storing Bodies, Remains in MA Self-Storage Units
Updated 9/24/15 – A Suffolk Superior Court judge sentenced Joseph V. O'Donnell this week to three to five years in prison as well as five years of probation for improperly disposing of 12 bodies and operating a funeral business without a license.
Updated 9/24/15 – A Suffolk Superior Court judge sentenced O'Donnell this week to three to five years in prison as well as five years of probation for improperly disposing of 12 bodies and operating a funeral business without a license.
O'Donnell, 57, pled guilty to the charges and was sentenced on Sept. 23. During sentencing, he apologized for his misdeeds. "Desperation led me to make terrible decisions. I never wanted any of this happen," he said.
Authorities suspect O'Donnell handled 201 funerals between the year his license expired and 2013, the source reported. He also passed off unknown cremated remains to families, assuring them they were the remains of their loved one.
10/9/14 – The Suffolk County, Mass., district attorney has levied a 278-count indictment against former funeral director Joseph V. O'Donnell in the case involving the 12 decomposed bodies and 77 sets of cremains discovered this summer inside units at two Massachusetts self-storage facilities.
The charges allege O'Donnell stole approximately $150,000 in funeral prepayments and held more than 200 funerals while working without a license. Formal charges include acting as a funeral director without a license, embezzlement, falsifying official documents, improper disposal of human remains, forgery and larceny, according to a report published by the "StarTribune."
Prosecutors said O'Donnell continued to operate as a funeral director until the foreclosure of his funeral home last year despite his license expiring in 2009. Earlier news reports said his license expired in 2008.
In total, investigators found 12 decomposed bodies and 32 sets of cremated remains in July in a storage unit O'Donnell rented in Weymouth, Mass. They also found 45 sets of cremains in a storage unit he rented in Somerville, Mass. Earlier reports omitted the number of cremains found in the Weymouth unit. Investigators believe the cremains found in Somerville went unclaimed by families, according to the source.
Of the 12 bodies discovered, 11 have been identified. Each died while O'Donnell was operating illegally, according to prosecutors, who are still trying to identify the 12th body, an adult woman. Families of eight of the deceased were allegedly given cremains of other people, according to the source. Prosecutors apparently recovered six sets of those ashes, but two other sets had already been scattered.
O'Donnell is due in court this week for an administrative hearing on his original larceny case, in which he is accused of stealing $12,000 from a client. His arraignment on the new charges hasn't been scheduled, according to the source.
8/7/14 – Pathologists have used X-rays, medical and dental records to identify 11 of the 12 bodies discovered last month inside a Weymouth, Mass., self-storage unit. They also have determined that the cremated remains of more than 40 people found in a unit in Somerville, Mass., date back decades, according to Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk County district attorney's office.
Successfully identifying all of the deceased individuals and alerting families is a "time-intensive project," Wark told the source. The families of the 11 identified bodies have been notified, he said.
The age of some of the cremains may prohibit investigators from including them in future criminal charges brought against suspect Joseph V. O'Donnell, according to Wark.
O'Donnell, a former mortician whose funeral-director license expired in 2008, rented both storage units, according to news sources. He remains in custody on $10,000 bail stemming from an unrelated larceny case.
7/21/14 – Human remains were recently discovered inside units at two Massachusetts self-storage facilities. Twelve bodies were found inside a Public Storage unit in Weymouth, and the cremated remains of 40 people were being kept in a unit at an unidentified Somerville storage property. The units were being rented by Joseph V. O'Donnell, whose funeral-director license expired in 2008, according to the source.
O'Donnell, 55, was already being held on $10,000 bail in a larceny case when investigators discovered the remains last week. He allegedly stole $12,000 from a client, the source reported.
Authorities do not suspect foul play, and investigators are trying to identify the remains, according to Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley. "Our top priority right now is determining the identity of the remains we've discovered," he said. "We've seized records and documents that could help us locate those people's families, but this will be a time- and labor-intensive task."
The bodies found in Weymouth were being sent to the chief medical examiner, according to the source.
No charges have been brought against O'Donnell in relation to the human remains, but the district attorney's office is pursuing the discovery as a criminal investigation, the source reported.
Boston Herald: Identifying Remains in Storage Units Massive 'Project'
Fox News: Officials: Unlicensed Mortician Had 12 Bodies, Cremated Remains of 40 at Storage Businesses
StarTribune: New Charges Accuse Ex-Funeral Director in Storage of 12 Bodies, Theft from Clients in Boston
The Boston Globe: Human Remains Found in Weymouth, Somerville Storage Facilities
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McCarthy isn't rounding up reds, but the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) just arrested and detained hundreds of foreign born men from a list of over twenty countries (mostly from North Africa and the Middle East) on the United States' 'axis of evil' list; many only for minor infractions such as overstays on visitor and student visas.
Starting with the election of President Bush, but catapulted by 9/11 and subsequent legislation (most importantly the PATRIOT ACT), the American government has begun to rewrite the rule books, cracking down on our civil liberties and in turn opening the door for a surge in neo-conservatism across the country.
The site posted dossiers on eight university professors who they claimed had expressed anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiments, setting off a backlash in the academic community. Those listed, along with over 100 professors and graduate students who sent their names into the site in solidarity, immediately labelled the site as a McCarthy-type witch-hunt, and a repression of free speech.
While the Middle Eastern Forum website focuses on the broader topic of the Middle East, it is apparent that the site is primarily interested in issues surrounding Israel.
Capitalising on the upsurge in post 9/11 patriotism, Daniel tries to insert Israel into his jingoistic defence of America and its foreign policy in the Middle East. He claims that support for Israel as a democratic ally is important to counteract a new wave of both anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. As a consequence of these efforts to link American and Israeli interests, Daniel has also succeeded in linking anti-Semitism with anti-Americanism, making it un-American to criticize anything that could be labelled 'anti-Semitic' – which to Daniel Pipes sometimes means something as indirect as defence of Palestinian statehood.
As an indication of how post-Dubya/post September 11 policies have affected America, Campus Watch should also raise fear about where we are headed. If George Bush gets his way, and we attack Iraq, America can expect to see even more cutbacks on our civil liberties, more INS roundups, and a continuation of our move to the right. As that happens, people like Daniel Pipes will have more room to manoeuvre.
Concerning Campus Watch, we can be assured that with Ariel's re-election in Israel there will be no end to the current conflict, and no end to strong Israeli-American ties. Daniel might get his way and the consequences of a project that targets academics might be more extreme, and reach beyond posting professors' names on a website.


Issuance of Independent Contractor Exemption Certificate (ICEC) to independent contractors in their own independently established businesses that have elected to not cover themselves under a Montana workers' compensation insurance policy.
So for this bed, one side is a basic raised bed and the other is a shallow table planter. The height is determined by the table planter side. The knee space under the table planter would be 27 inches. I don't know that members in power chairs would be able to go under it, though. Something to discuss with the design committee. The table planter would be 8-10 inches deep, which is adequate for many varieties of plants. Taking drainage into consideration, I thought that perhaps the table planter would either overlap or otherwise be open into the other side to allow for drainage.
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I am a current Master's student looking for some freelance gigs for some extra cash so I figured I'd try odesk. Heck, if I can pass the GRE with flying colors, the tests on odesk are nothing, so I decided to bulk up and get as many certifications as I could. I should have checked the pay rates first, though. Who in their right mind works for $1 an hour? That's just plain insulting! I can get a minimum wage job and health benefits for 8 times as much so why bother with this joke of a website? Needless to say, I'm sorely disappointed. No one can make a living or even buy a cup of coffee for $1 an hour!
I do hope I can see more of those green structures, not just homes, but for establishments as well, like clinics, banks, etc. It would be nice if Chicago dental contractors could build green structures when they construct clinics. It's not just going to help the residents, but it's also going to help the environment. If the Chicago healthcare developers and contractors would do this green building, it's going to help in the wellness of the people and their surroundings.


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Leeds Rhinos: Trent Merrin is determined to set the on-field lead
Leeds' Trent Merrin.
BRINGING THE glory days back to Leeds Rhinos is a tougher task than marquee signing Trent Merrin thought, but he insists he accepts the challenge.
Rhinos hit a new low three days ago when they were knocked out of the Coral Challenge Cup by Betfred Championship side Bradford Bulls.
Leeds Rhinos' Trent Merrin.
The eight-time Super League champions are 10th in the table and enduring their third relegation battle in four seasons since the treble triumph of 2015.
It is not what Merrin thought he was in for when he agreed to join Leeds from Penrith Panthers on a four-year contract last autumn, but he pledged he will roll up his sleeves and get stuck in.
Reflecting on the current situation, the 29-year-old Australian forward said: "We have lost a lot of great players at this club, who have moved on and retired and left a void there.
"I have come here to do a job; obviously it is a harder job than I expected and I will take that as a challenge.
Trent Merrin
"I am excited for it.
"I know I am better leading by my actions, not my words; I know what I need to do.
"It is great to have these young players around us because they feed off that.
"I will be keeping my chin up and ticking my boxes and hopefully these young boys can see that and can lead the way too."
Trent Merrin is tackled by Salford's Gil Dudson and George Griffin.
Thursday's visit of Castleford Tigers will mark the start of the second half of the league season and, with only four wins so far, Rhinos are desperate for points.
Merrin, though, said he is "100 per cent" confident they will turn things around.
"I looked this [yesterday] morning and we have still got about 15 games of the season left," he added.
Leeds Rhinos too slow out of the blocks says Brett Ferres
"That's a massive chunk of the season to take on. The Challenge Cup is out of our hands, that's put to bed, so our main focus now is climbing back up that ladder and doing the best we can in the Super League competition.
"It starts with us – we've just got to regroup, not look behind us and start to put some things in place for what's ahead of us.
"We are doing that collectively. It's not going to be easy, there's going to be a lot of hard days, hard work and honest conversations and we will start to see some results coming our way."
Merrin admitted the onus is on senior players to drag Rhinos out of their current plight.
"It's up to us as leaders in the team to lead the way in how to hold ourselves through this tough period," he said.
"I have been through years like this at different clubs. On and off the field you go through tough times and you've just got to chip away, make sure you are individually prepared to take on the battle and help players around you to prepare the same way.
"It's the easy option to just cop it on the chin and say this is the way it's going to be, but it is a very proud club, we've got proud fans and a lot of propud players in this team.
"We have to stand up to this challenge now. We've seen what rock bottom was, which was the weekend, and now we really have to stand up and challenge our character."
Championship rumours: Leeds United offered THREE Aston Villa stars for Kalvin Phillips, Whites set for talks over Liverpool winger, Fulham chase £8m midfielder
Watch the hilarious moment chanting Leeds United fans 'ejected' Manchester United supporter from Australian pub
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'Doting' Leeds dad struck by car and killed on Stanningley Road just days after son's first birthday
These Leeds bus services will be diverted TODAY due to day two of Extinction Rebellion protesters


Good stuff mate and i would have also mentioned Mick Hone for parts.
So did you find a fairing? I have one that just needs new paint.
If Brocky had ridden bikes, I'm sure he would have been a Katana man! RIP Brocky 05.
Hey Soxy, pretty sure Eric found a cowl however, if he is still after one he has first chop of course. If he is squared away, P.M. sent.
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Thanks Soxy, Glen fixed me up last year.
Hey Eric, are you in Curry this week and swimming around the mine?
Yeah, the map showed you getting a good soak pretty quick. Some of the locals wouldn't remember what rain is?


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In this episode, Amanda and I dissect what makes a killer pitch, using as our example the pitch email she wrote me to become a guest on this show (which worked, obviously!). She shares stories and lessons learned from 12 years of corporate PR work, and tells us about how and why she left that world in order to go into business for herself. We talk about journaling, about the power of naming what's true, and about how to change your story.
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Sam Parkinson has created his first Pepper for Mint, Big Total.
Big Total will give you a nice big number with either your sites total visits or its total unique visits.
Grab a copy over at Sam Parkinson's site now.
Ernie Oporto has updated his AdsenseAgg Pepper to v1.02.
This update fixes a few bugs, including a workaround for the new Google Adsense login format and cookie storage location. A recommended upgrade.
Brad Jasper has released a beta of his Pepper, Attention Span.
Attention span shows how sticky your content is by displaying bounce rates and pages per visit information. The higher the pages per visit and lower the bounce rate the stickier your content.
The Pepper has two tabs, one for Bounce Rates and the other for Pages Per Visit. Both vitally important information I never realised I needed until I installed this Pepper. Definitely one to try out folks, and be sure to leave Brad some feedback.
Till has finally finished and released his Locations+ Pepper and it is free!
It's not as fast as Locations, but it tracks regions and cities as well.
The locations Database weighs in at a hefty 16MB download which in turn is a 25MB upload to your /mint/pepper/tillkruess/locationsplus/ folder. Fantastic in-depth location analysis is available and this seems to be about as exact as it gets without an overly expensive paid-for database.


The Advent celebration has a long tradition as a family observance. It begins with the blessing at the evening meal on the Saturday before the first Sunday of Advent. One by one a new candle is lit throughout the month of December. Then on Christmas Day, the colored candles are replaced with white candles, which are burned until the ceremony concludes with the Feast of Epiphany.
The 3" x 12" Column Candle Set includes 3 purple and 1 pink pillar candle. Sold one set per case.


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The Whitianga Festival of Speed (Whitianga FOS) was a motorsport festival held in the seaside town of Whitianga on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand in 2009 and 2010.  The festival hosted a multitude of events including the New Zealand Helicopter Championships, Offshore powerboat racing, Aerobatic Displays, Off-road Vehicle Demonstrations, Jet ski racing and bespoke events such as Rally Car Vs Helicopter racing. The event was free for spectators.

Events
The motorsport events held at the festival were:

Mass Aircraft Flyover
New Zealand Helicopter Championships
Warbird display
Hellicopters opening beer bottles
Hellicopters racing Rally Cars
Big Boat Race
Jet ski Racing
Yak Aircraft aerobatic display
Mustang Aircraft and Kittyhawk aerobatic display
ThunderCat vs Jet ski event
Offshore Power Boat vs Helicopter race
NZOPA Offshore Power Boat Race
Royal New Zealand Navy Patrol Vessel display
Parachuting swooping display
Go Kart race
Mini club skill driving event
Drift Car demonstration
Motorcycle stunt riding
V8 Supercar display
Jetsprint demonstration and race
Lawn mower racing
NZ off-road series race
Drag Race
Rolling Thunder Parade
Helicopter Display
Auto show

History
The inaugural Whitianga Festival of Speed was held over the weekend of 4–5 April 2009 as an additional event in the New Zealand Offshore Power Boat Series. It attracted an estimated 15,000–20,000 spectators.

The 2010 event was held on the weekend of 10–11 April and saw the crowd double to an estimated 40,000.

References

External links
 Whitianga Festival of Speed website

Motorsport in New Zealand
Thames-Coromandel District
Sport in Waikato

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Nat Immunol. 2017 Mar;18(3):354-363. doi: 10.1038/ni.3665. Epub 2017 Jan 23.
A sestrin-dependent Erk-Jnk-p38 MAPK activation complex inhibits immunity during aging.
Lanna A1,2, Gomes DC1,3, Muller-Durovic B1, McDonnell T1, Escors D1,4, Gilroy DW5, Lee JH6, Karin M7, Akbar AN1.
Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK.
Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas/Núcleo de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo - UFES, Vitória, Brazil.
Navarrabiomed-Biomedical Research Centre, Fundación Miguel Servet, IdisNA, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
Division of Medicine, University College London, London, London, UK.
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Signal Transduction, Departments of Pharmacology and Pathology, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA.
Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) including Erk, Jnk and p38 regulate diverse cellular functions and are thought to be controlled by independent upstream activation cascades. Here we show that the sestrins bind to and coordinate simultaneous Erk, Jnk and p38 MAPK activation in T lymphocytes within a new immune-inhibitory complex (sestrin-MAPK activation complex (sMAC)). Whereas sestrin ablation resulted in broad reconstitution of immune function in stressed T cells, inhibition of individual MAPKs allowed only partial functional recovery. T cells from old humans (>65 years old) or mice (16-20 months old) were more likely to form the sMAC, and disruption of this complex restored antigen-specific functional responses in these cells. Correspondingly, sestrin deficiency or simultaneous inhibition of all three MAPKs enhanced vaccine responsiveness in old mice. Thus, disruption of sMAC provides a foundation for rejuvenating immunity during aging.
10.1038/ni.3665
Sestrins are broad regulators of T cell senescence.
(a) Expression of surface CD27 and CD28 in human CD4+ T cells by flow-cytometry. (b) Immunoblots (left) and flow cytometry data (right) of endogenous sestrin1, sestrin2 and sestrin3 expression in CD4+ T cells gated as in (a). (c) 3H-thymidine uptake and (d) telomerase activity in CD4+ Tsen cells transduced as indicated. (e) DNA damage foci assessed by the DNA damage response marker γ-H2Ax in cells as above. Flow cytometry of (f) intracellular LCK, (g) CD27 and CD28 co-stimulatory receptors, (h) calcium abundance and (i) IL2 synthesis in CD4+ Tsen cells transduced as indicated. Results presented relative to those of cells transduced with shCtrl, set as 1. Data are representative of four experiments (a, b (left)) or pooled from four experiments with four individual donors (b (right)) or three donors (c, d, e, f, g, h, i). **p<0.01 and ***p< 0.001 calculated using ANOVA for repeated measures with Bonferroni post-test correction. Error bars indicate s.e.m.
A sestrin-dependent Erk/Jnk/p38 MAPK activation complex inhibits immunity during ageing
Nat Immunol. 2017 Mar;18(3):354-363.
Sestrins bind to and activate Erk, Jnk and p38 in Tsen.
(a) Immunoblot analysis of lysates from CD4+ Tsen precipitated with IgG control or sestrin1 antibodies, and stained for the indicated proteins. Right margin, molecular weights. (b) MAPK phosphorylation of AMPK immunoprecipitates from CD4+ Tsen transduced as indicated then treated with the AMPK agonist A-769662 (150 μM, 60') 96h later. Results assessed by in vitro kinase assay based on an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (absorbance at 450 nm) and presented relative to that of cells transduced with shCtrl, set as 1. (c) MAPK auto-phosphorylation in sestrin1 complexes from CD4+ Tsen incubated for 30' with the AMPK agonist A-769662 (150 μM, 30'), the Erk inhibitor FR18024 (20 μM), the Jnk inhibitor SP-600125 (10 μM) or the p38 inhibitor SB-203580 (10 μM), in the presence or absence of ATP (200 μM). MAPK activity was determined and presented as in (b). (d) ELISA-based ATP abundance in AMPK-γ immunoprecipitates from CD4+ Tsen whereby one or more sestrins were silenced by shRNA. Results presented relative to that of cells transduced with shCtrl, set as 1. (e) AMPK phosphorylation of cells as in (d); GAPDH, loading control. (f) Elisa-based MAPK-binding assays in sestrin1 immunoprecipitates from cells as in (a) transfected with either Ctrl or siAMPK-γ for 36h, and presented relative to those of cells transfected with siCtrl, set as 1. Data are representative of two (a) or three (e) experiments or pooled from three independent experiments with three individual donors (b, c, d, f). *p<0.05 **p<0.01 and ***p< 0.001, ANOVA for repeated measures with Bonferroni post-test correction. Error bars indicate s.e.m. throughout.
Reconstitution of the sMAC in Terl.
(a) ELISA-based MAPK phosphorylation in AMPK immunoprecipitates from CD4+ Terl cells transfected as indicated, lysed 36h later, and incubated with either GFP ('no Sesn') or recombinant human sestrins (1 μg/mL, each) for 1h. Sestrin-dependent MAPK activation presented relative to that of GFP-treated extracts ('no Sesn'), set as 1. (b) ELISA-based MAPK binding in lysates from CD4+ Terl cells, incubated with recombinant sestrins for 1h followed by immunoprecipitation with AMPK antibodies. MAPK recruitment to AMPK presented relative to that of GFP-treated extracts ('no Sesn'). (c) Gel-filtration chromatography coupled to ELISA-binding assays of sestrin2 complexes from CD4+ Terl cells after incubation with recombinant sestrins. d) Irradiation-triggered Erk, Jnk and p38 phosphorylation in CD4+ Terl transduced as indicated, then analyzed by phospho-flow 8h after radiation. Data are pooled from three (a) or two (b,c,d) independent experiments. *p<0.05 **p<0.01 and ***p< 0.001, ANOVA for repeated measures with Bonferroni post-test correction. Error bars indicate s.e.m. throughout.
Individual MAPKs control different aspects of T cell senescence
Measurement of (a) telomerase activity, (b) endogenous DDR foci and (c) expression of the TCR signalosome component LCK in CD4+ Tsen cells treated with the Erk inhibitor FR18024 (20 μM), the Jnk inhibitor SP-600125 (10 μM) or the p38 inhibitor SB-203580 (10 μM) for 36 hours, then analysed for functional readouts. A DMSO solution was used as control. (e-g) Effect of the indicated siRNAs on (d) telomerase activity, (e) calcium flux and (f) DDR foci in sestrin2-silenced CD4+ Tsen treated with the AMPK agonist A-769662 (150 μM, 48 hours). Data pooled from four independent experiments with four individual donors (a, b, c) or three independent experiments (d, e, f), and presented relative to those of cells transfected or transduced with siCtrl or shCtrl, set as 1. **p<0.01 and ***p< 0.001, ANOVA for repeated measures with Bonferroni post-test correction. Error bars indicate s.e.m. throughout.
Enhanced sMAC formation with age.
(a) Immunoblots (left) and data (right) of endogenous sestrin proteins in lysates from young (20-35 years) versus old (70-85 years) primary human CD4+ T cells. Age-dependent expression of sestrins was normalized to endogenous GAPDH and presented relative to that of young donors, set as 1. (b) Flow-cytometry assessing sestrin2+ cells among CD4+ Terl and CD4+ Tsen subsets from 8 young and 8 old individuals. (c) Age-dependent sMAC formation by Image Stream in cells as in (b); representative of several images from 4 different individuals per each age-group. (d) Sestrin2+-p-MAPKs+ co-localization scores (BDS) of cells as in (c) (n = 4). (e) VZV-specific proliferation in CD4+ Terl and CD4+ Tsen cells from 3 young and 3 old donors. Pooled data (n = 3) presented relative to those of CD4+ Terl from young donors, set as 1. (f) Restored VZV-specific sensitivity (proliferation) in CD4+ Tsen from old humans where one or two Sestrins were silenced by shRNA (n = 3), presented relative to that of cells transduced with shCtrl and stimulated with the lowest VZV antigen dilution (1:100), set as 1. (g) Restored IL2 synthesis in sestrin-silenced CD4+ Tsen reactivated with autologous APCs loaded with a VZV antigen dilution of 1:100 and presented as in (f) (n = 3). Data are pooled from three experiments with three separate donors (a, e, f, g) or four experiments with eight (b) or four (c, d) donors. *p<0.05 **p<0.01 and ***p< 0.001, ANOVA for repeated measures with Bonferroni post-test correction. Error bars indicate s.e.m. throughout.
Sestrin deficiency enhances responsiveness to vaccination in old mice.
(a) Splenocyte count of 20-month Sesn1+/- and Sesn1-/- mice vaccinated with FLUAD (1:20 of human dose) or vehicle saline solution, then culled 5 days later. (b) Absolute CD4+ T cell count in mice as in (a). (c) Frequencies of naïve CD62L+ CD44- and effector CD62L- CD44+ CD4+ T cells in Sesn1+/- and Sesn1-/- mice vaccinated with FLUAD. (d) Counter-plots (left) and MFI data (right) showing IFN-γ and IL-2 production among CD4+ T cells from Sesn1+/- and Sesn1-/- mice after FLUAD-vaccination. Pooled results (n = 4) presented relative to those of vaccinated Sesn1+/- mice, set as 1. (e) Proliferation among CD4+ T cells from mice as in (d), representative overlay and pooled data (n = 4). (f) IFN-γ production in Sesn1+/- and Sesn1-/- CD4+ T cells after FLUAD-vaccination, transfected as indicated then re-stimulated for 18h with Sesn1+/- APCs pre-loaded with FLUAD. Results presented relative to that of vaccinated Sesn1+/- mice, set as 1. (g) One-week vaccine-specific IgG titers in serum of vaccinated Sesn1+/- or Sesn1-/- mice. ELISA-based binding assays presented relative to those of vaccinated Sesn1+/- mice, set as 1. Data are from two experiments with six (a, b) or four (c, d, e, g) individual aged-matched mice per group or three independent experiments with three individual mice per group (f). *p<0.05 **p<0.01 and ***p< 0.001, ANOVA for repeated measures with Bonferroni post-test correction (a, b, c, f) or paired Student's t-test (d, e, g). Error bars indicate s.e.m. throughout.
Simultaneous MAPKi phenocopies Sestrin-deficiency in vivo
(a) Phospho-flow analysis of sestrin2 expression in CD4+ T cells from 16-month old mice. (b) Erk, Jnk and p38 phosphorylation in CD4+ T cells from control Sesn1+/- and Sesn1-/- mice (20 months) vaccinated as in . Data (n = 4) presented relative to those of control Sesn1+/- mice, set as 1. (c) Correlation between reduced sestrin2+-p-Erk+/p-Jnk+/p-p38+ signaling and enhanced IFN-γ+ production in CD4+ T cells from Sesn1-/- versus Sesn1+/- mice after FLUAD vaccination (n = 4; r2 = 0.82). (d) Splenocyte and (e) CD4+ T cell counts from 16-old mice injected with Erk (25 mg/kg), Jnk (16 mg/kg) and p38 (10 mg/kg) inhibitors either individually or together (triple MAPKi), vaccinated with FLUAD, and daily kept on MAPKi for five days. Results relative to those of DMSO-treated mice, set as 1. (f) MAPK-self phosphorylation in CD4+ T cells from mice as in (d-e) assessed by in vitro kinase assays, and presented relative to those of DMSO treated mice, set as 1. (g) FLUAD-driven IFN-γ production and IgG isotypic-switch among sestrin2+ CD4+ T and CD19+ B cells in mice as in (d-e), assessed by flow-cytometry. Pooled data (n = 4) presented relative to those of DMSO treated mice, set as 1. Data are pooled from four experiments with four (age-matched) mice per group (a, b, c, d, e, g) or two experiments (f). **p<0.01 and ***p< 0.001, ANOVA for repeated measures with Bonferroni post-test correction. Error bars indicate s.e.m. throughout. r2, Pearson-correlation test.
The sMAC is formed in mouse T cells.
(a) Immunoblot analysis and (b) pooled data (n = 4) of Erk, Jnk, and p38 phosphorylation in lysates from CD4+ T cells from 20-month old vaccinated Sesn1+/- and Sesn1-/- mice following immunoprecipitation with sestrin2 antibodies. Results in (b) presented relative to those of Sesn1+/- mice, set as 1. Sestrin2 expression in whole cell lysates (WCL), loading control. Sestrin1 expression is also shown. (c) Image-Stream analysis and (d) % co-localization scores of sestrin2+-pMAPKs+ in CD4+ T cells from Sesn1-/- and Sesn1-/+ mice, five days post-vaccination with FLUAD, presented as in (b). In vitro MAPK assays of sestrin2 immunoprecipitates from mouse Sesn1-/- CD4+ T cells incubated for 60' with or without (e) recombinant human sestrin1 or (f) the AMPK agonist A-769662, in the presence or absence of ATP. Results presented relative to that of non-reconstituted Sesn1-/- cells ('basal'), set as 1. In (e) cells were transfected with the indicated siRNAs 48h before lysis. Data are representative of four experiments (a, c) or pooled from four experiments with four (age-matched) individual mice (b, d, e, f). **p<0.01 and ***p< 0.001, ANOVA for repeated measures with Bonferroni post-test correction. Error bars indicate s.e.m. throughout.
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Lessons for Appalachia's Post-coal Economy
DEVELOPMENT & SOCIETY : Energy, Sustainability, Natural Resources, Economics, Americas
2012•12•03 Brooke Jarvis YES! Magazine
Photo by Ken Kessinger/Bread for the World.
For all the pandering to the coal industry that took place during campaign season, a casual observer could be forgiven for coming away with the belief that coal is still the most powerful economic and political force in the Appalachia region of the United States.
The truth, though, is quite different: Coal's contribution to Appalachian economies is already a shadow of what it once was; as the best seams are exhausted and coal gets more expensive to mine, its future in the region has never looked bleaker. (For a closer look at Big Coal's finances, check out David Roberts's recent accounting.)
This decline is good news, of course, for the climate, the local environment, and the health of Appalachian residents. But, in the near term, it's tough news for an already struggling regional economy.
So what happens when Appalachia is coal country no more? What will it take to build a new economy in a region that has been defined by the unsustainable extraction of natural resources (including natural gas and poorly managed timber in addition to coal)?
Throughout Appalachia, local, grassroots groups are hard at work on those questions. Outsiders might be surprised to learn that the region is full of organizations working to reform old industries and promote more sustainable ones, to build local entrepreneurial capacity, and to make sure the region's resources benefit residents over the long haul. These organizations are often heavily interconnected, creating a growing, region-wide support network for residents who are looking to create something new.
And new is the name of the game — a recurring theme is the need to build economies designed to avoid the problems of Appalachia's past. These groups see the necessity of an economic transition as a chance to create economies more diverse, more resilient, and far less polluting than what came before.
1. Diversify
One what-not-to-do lesson that these groups are taking to heart: avoid over-dependence on the export of just one resource-dependent commodity. This is known as the "resource curse" — becoming so tied to one industry that you don't develop the diverse, networked enterprises of a well-rounded economy. The region has learned — from tobacco and timber as well as coal — that such an approach leaves communities vulnerable to even small fluctuations of the market, subject to boom-and-bust cycles in which bad years often wipe out the gains of the good ones.
Instead, groups are focusing on ways to build more resilient economies, where a variety of mutually supportive microenterprises can flourish. The Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED) offers loans and technical assistance to small businesses and nonprofits; the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks runs two business incubators where new enterprises can get counseling, office, and light-manufacturing space, as well as share resources and procurement.
A number of organizations are working to help Appalachia catch up to the rest of the country in access to broadband Internet. The Southern Grassroots Economy Project offers training in setting up cooperatively owned enterprises, and the Central Appalachian Network offers grants to businesses producing local food.
2. Keep wealth local
One of the biggest tragedies of the coal era is that, for all of the sacrifices of Appalachian residents — blasted mountains, polluted water and air, high rates of disease and birth defects, the deaths of more than 100,000 miners — very little of the wealth created by the industry has stuck around. Coal-producing counties are among the poorest in the nation.
The idea is to use coal money, while it's still around, to build more sustainable sources of wealth.
That's why a number of Appalachian groups are pushing to make sure that the same thing doesn't happen again. They say Appalachian states can make better use of the money coal produces as it declines; groups in Kentucky and West Virginia are pushing to divert a portion of coal severance taxes to permanent funds, similar to those set up in Alaska, Montana, and Wyoming.
The idea is to use coal money, while it's still around, to build more sustainable sources of wealth (in the form of job training programs, infrastructure, and more). In West Virginia, they also hope to harness the new boom in town, natural gas, in the same way. If the industry can't be kept out, the reasoning goes, the states should find ways to turn nonrenewable resources into assets that last.
3. You can't extract forever
Another lesson learned: After years of shipping irreplaceable natural wealth out of the region, a number of groups are looking for ways to turn conservation into an economically viable option.
Appalachian Voices, Coal River Mountain Watch, and other groups across the region are fighting to protect their mountains from mountaintop removal — a coal-mining practice that destroys entire mountains for one-time profit — pointing out that other uses, like tourism or wind production, would be much better for local economies in the long term. The Appalachian Carbon Partnership helps landowners inventory the carbon sequestered in their forests and sell offsets; Green Forests Work reforests land that has been strip-mined; MACED helps companies and landowners get certified in sustainable forestry.
Campaign 2012's coal theatre — Mitt Romney reversing himself on the dangers of coal; the exec who laid off dozens of miners in Utah the day after the election, blaming President Obama; the repeated allegations of an EPA "war on coal" — was outdated even as it happened. It's been a long time since coal could be called Appalachia's way forward. Appalachians, more and more, know it — and are hard at work building something better.
This article appears courtesy of YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas and practical actions.
Brooke Jarvis
EditorYES! Magazine
Brooke Jarvis is web editor of YES! Magazine.
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Trump Signs First Major Rollback of Obama-Era Climate Regulations
By Yessenia Funes Feb 15, 2017
President Donald Trump is wasting no time on dismantling some of the climate regulations made under Barack Obama. He signed a resolution yesterday (February 14) to repeal a rule that mandated resource extraction companies to disclose any payments made to a foreign government.
This move was made possible through a rare use of the 1996 Congressional Review Act (CRA), which allows Congress to reject any recent law—those submitted to Congress on or since June 13, 2016—through majority vote and presidential signing. Congress voted to move the remove this regulation on February 3.*
The rule, which came from the Securities and Exchange Commission, went into effect on September 26, 2016. It required that these resource extraction companies make public how much they paid to foreign governments and what the payment was for. The goal? Reduce corruption. Former ExxonMobil CEO and current Secretary of State Rex Tillerson lobbied against this regulation, Vox reports.
The president called the repeal a "big signing, a very important signing." It's part of his plan to bolster fossil fuel production, especially in the coal industry, which has seen plants rapidly closing due to the falling costs of natural gas.
Two other Obama-era climate regulations on the chopping block concern stream protection and methane emissions reduction. The House and Senate have already voted yes on H.J.Res. 38, which will scuttle rules requiring mining companies to protect streams and forests. H.J.Res. 36, the resolution to limit natural gas emissions on tribal and public lands, has been approved by the House but awaits Senate approval.
Both are in line with the president's promise to revive the coal industry and remove regulation, especially given his January 30 executive order to remove at least two regulations for every one added.
(H/t Vox)
*This post was updated to correct that the Congress passed the repeal on February 3, not February 2.
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